What's the Archbishop Up To?
Following Archbishop Weisenburger's travels in the Archdiocese of Detroit
Edward Joseph Weisenburger was born in Alton, Illinois, on December 23, 1960.
On December 19, 1987, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Oklahoma City. He served in several parish and administrative roles in Oklahoma City, including as an on-site chaplain for rescue workers in the weeks following the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
On February 6, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed then-Monsignor Weisenburger as the eleventh Bishop of Salina, Kansas. He was ordained and installed on May 1, 2012. On October 3, 2017, Weisenburger was appointed Bishop of Tucson by His Holiness, Pope Francis. He was installed as the seventh Bishop of Tucson on November 29, 2017.
Archbishop Weisenburger was appointed the tenth Bishop and sixth Archbishop of Detroit by His Holiness, Pope Francis, on February 11, 2025. He was installed on March 18, 2025, in Detroit’s Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Pope Leo XIV bestowed the archepiscopal pallium upon him at St. Peter’s Basilica on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, 2025.
